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By Nelson A. King
With a few days left for a
special election to replace Caribbean
American New York
City Public Advocate Jumaane
Williams for the 45th Council
District in Brooklyn, a Caribbean
American candidate is
invoking the legacy of her late
great-uncle, former Grenadian
diplomat, Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus,
into her campaign.
Lawyer Jovia Radix, the
daughter of Grenadian-born
dentist, Dr. Joseph Radix, the
nephew of Dr. Stanislaus, told
Caribbean Life Saturday night
that she is following in the footsteps
of Dr. Stanislaus, a former
Grenada Ambassador to the
United Nations, who died on
Sept. 18, 2016. He was 95.
“This campaign has brought
an overwhelming wealth of support
that I am so grateful for,”
said Jovia Radix, whose mother
is Barbadian-born jurist Sylvia
Hinds-Radix. “My family has
always stressed to me the importance
of community; and, as I
reflect on where we came from,
migrating to this country for a
better life, I am so grateful.
“I am grateful for those who
paved the way to make it possible
for me to run like my great
uncle Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus,”
added Radix, who is among
nine candidates contesting the
seat that became vacant when
Williams, the son of Grenadian
immigrants, recently won the
seat for New York City Public
Advocate.
“Uncle Lam, as I knew him,
served both the Grenadian and
US governments but never lost
his sense of family or community,”
Radix continued. “I only
hope to continue that legacy.”
Barely five months after he
was recognized by then US President
Barack Obama and First
Lady Michelle Obama, as “a part
of our great American story,” Dr.
Stanislaus died at a hospice in
Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn,
where he was taken to, from his
Brooklyn home. Dr. Stanislaus
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth
II.
Shortly after celebrating
his 95th birthday on April 22,
2016, Sir Lamuel told the Caribbean
Life that he was “suffering
with the ravages of cancer of
the prostrate and cancer of the
bones.”
Derek Ventour, the Brooklynbased,
Grenadian-born entertainment
producer, was instrumental
in Sir Lamuel receiving
US Presidential and Congressional
recognitions, just months
before his death, at the behest
of Brooklyn’s Caribbean American
Congresswomen Yvette D.
Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican
immigrants, and New York
State recognition.
Born in Petite Martinique,
Grenada’s smallest sister isle —
the larger is Carriacou — Stanislaus
was educated at Grenada
Boys’ Secondary School (1933-
1938) and Howard University
in Washington, D.C., where he
received his Bachelor of Science
(summa cum laude) degree in
1948, and the Doctor of Dental
Surgery (DDS) degree in 1953.
He was engaged in the private
practice of dentistry in New
York City for 32 years before
taking up the UN appointments,
the family said.
Sir Lamuel also served for a
year as a vice-president of the
UN General Assembly, “during
which he was appointed to act
for a month in the absence of
the president, receiving highest
commendation for the conduct
of the business of the General
Assembly for that month,”
according to the Stanislaus family.
The family also said another
highlight of Stanislaus’ tenure
was “the persuasive statement
made before the Decolonization
Committee, which resulted in
the invitation to the then chief
minister of Montserrat to come
to the UN to plead his case for
additional help for his volcanicravaged
island.”
Jovia Radix Esq.
Radix invokes legacy of
late Grenadian diplomat
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